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This week’s Flashback Friday looks back to August 1980 with ram sales, the EP Field Days,&nbsp;Gawler Show and Adelaide Royal preparation, alongside plenty more.

Trainee sheepdog SAlly with Joanne Craill, Hackham, at Gepps Cross market.

Sharefarmer Dean Childs, Gilbert Williams, Ungarra, and Graeme Lawrie, with the top price ram at Collandra, Tumby Bay.

Trevor and Lyndon Smith with Russel Newton, Balaklava, at Gepps Cross.

Mr and Mrs Robert Zadow with daughter Karen (centre), Trebor Park, Copeville, were strong buyers at the Nunkadu private auction, Karoonda.

White River studmaster John Daniell with the ram which gained top auction price of $2300 and buyers Monica and Mark Dodd, Ceduna, who will register a stud later this year.

WA visitor Lyle Bolte, Gatepines West, Corrigin, with Elders state manager Graeme Higginson, at the EP auctions.

Jim and Vin McInerney, Garryowen, Riverton, are shown a cut from a Poll Hereford steer by SA Poll Hereford president John Greenslade, Dalwhinnie, Maitland, at the boning out and carcass appraisal day at Regency Park College of Food.

SAS Channel 10 personalitys Jane Reilly and Fat Cat with Kukakunga Maori Maid X31 and her calf ahead of the Royal Adelaide Show.

Maurice Vandeleur, Clare, was one of three judges assessing the grand champion ram at the Crystal Brook show.

Torrens Island quarantine attendants Shane McGirr and Peter Darke with vet Bruce Wiggins inspect some 'sentinel' cattle.

Dalgety's former Minlaton and current Alice Springs branch manager David Baker prepares for a trip to the US, with help from Dalgety state rural manager Noel O'Brien.

Ted Blieschke, Melrose, holds the Crystal Brook grand champion ram while Jim Sullivan, Greenfields, Hallett, holds the reserve grand champion ewe, both from Greenfields.

William Walker, Classings Ltd, Murray Bridge, Andrew Hawker, Bungaree, Booborowie, Tallala manager Don Fauser, and Elders stud sheep auctioneer Greg Patterson, with the top price ram at Tumby Bay.

Frank McGill, Calingiri, WA, Barry Lang, Whyandra, Georgetown, and Alistair Murray, Cappadee, Hallett, at the Tumby Bay Merino ram sales.

The top price ram at Cleve field days with Don Bierworth, Elders West Coast area manager, Dusty McGowan, Deloshanda, Kielpa, buyer Brian Mahoney, Mount Hope, and Elders Cleve manager Paul Smart.

RAHS ag produce committee members Norm March, Coonalpyn, and Fred Croser, Aldinga, prepare wheat entries for judging.

Leeann Leverington, Mt Barker, won a trip to Britain through Rural Youth Exchange.

Master of the Edenhope Hunt Club Peter Humphries, competes at the Strathyre Hunters Spectacular.

Dalgety's technical officer, animal ultrasonics, Des Mundy, demonstrates the Scanopreg sheep pregnancy detector.

Graham Bell, Bellbro, Tintinara, Simon Desbrough, Buckhurst Pastoral Co., Telopea Downs, Vic, and Michael Bell, Bellbro stud, with the top price ram at the Naracoorte ram sale.

Owen and Arthur Wilkinson, Glenvale, Ben Nevis, Vic, look at a ram in the Pollville stud team, held by Bruce Lehman, Pollville, Mt Bryan.

Henry Young, Landfall, Keith, won the Stock Journal award for the best new machine in the special stock handling feature display and demonstration at the Cleve field days. He is congratulated by Stock Journal machinery writer David East.

Winner of the Bank of Adelaide farm innovation competition was local Sam Jericho, for his tree planting and watering system, with field days committee chairman Eddie Elleway and Bank of Adelaide marketing officer Ern Francis.

Andrew and Carolyn Furner, Naracoorte, at the EP Field Days, Cleve.

At the Rural Youth tent are Tanya Frick, Megan Low and Lyndon Briese, all of Cleve, Vinny Hinner and Darryl Phillips, both of Elliston, and (back) Kym Gillett, Elliston and Kelvin Beare, Kadina.

Shell Co chairman's representative Bob Dahlenburg present Pauleen Howard, Elliston, with her Rural Youth award of a trip to New Zealand.

Rural Youth award winners, Jillian Kench, Neville Humphrys, Saddleworth, Pauleen Howard, Elliston, Gordon Childs, Leeann Leverington, David Ridgway, Margaret Hutchesson and Tom Heath.

Matthew Smith, son of Mt Vivian manager Don Smith, via Kingoonya, and Lumpy.

Joe Lowey, WIndsor, has created a landmark along Port Wakefield Road with his cactus garden.

Janey and Sam Thring, Blue Hills, Telopea Downs, Vic, Debbie Hardy, Toolka, Apsley, Vic, Cath Thring, Westlands, Avenue Range, and Toolka's Ace Hardy watch the record-breaking Naracoorte Merino ram sales.

George and Cynthia Thomas with son Ken, James and Christine Thomas, Katandra Merino and Sandy Creek Suffolk studs, Owen.

Allen Saint, Bowmans, Malcolm Button, Dalgety, Coonalpyn, Rob Klitscher, Brooklyn Park, Coonalpyn, and Peter Crauford, Warreema, Meningie, ahead of the Dalgety Bowmans store cattle sale.

Angela Close with a set of quads at the Newbold North Poll Dorset stud, Gawler River.

Eddie Burge and Dick Munro at the lamb market at Naracoorte.

Kadina mayor Dale Morphett and Elders state manager Graeme Higginson led the way at the official opening of Elders new Kadina premises.

Hampshire Downs lambs queue for a feed as Les Hart, Glen Devon, Two Wells, judges at Gawler Show, with Karen Austin, Ingle Farm.

Gavin Kelly, Bennetts Farmers Loxton, Lyndon Hampel and father Cliff, with Colin Schwarz, Meribah, at the Paruna woolly lamb sale.

RAHS vice president Roy Hentschke (centre) was on hand at Wayville to assist SA Department of Agriculture's Bob Puckridge to measure grain quantity while secretary of the advisory committee on wheat quality Terry Heard weighs samples.

Buyer DK Johnson (centre), with Bill West and son Gary, Cable Bridge stud, Macgillivray, KI, with the stud's top price ram.

Rod Sharrard, Pinery, Arthurton, works his way along a Suffolk ewe class during judging at Gawler Show.

Margaret Baker (centre), Mallbrae Large White stud, Wild Horse Plains, judges at the Gawler Show, with stewards Lance Dawkins, Para Wirra, Gawler River, and Kevin Gameau, Bennetts Farmers.

At the Wilmington Merino sale are Peter Kelly, and Darcy Kelly, Itali-Itali, Jim Mould, Mikamp, and Dudley and David Freeman, Yapoona Springs.

Friesian sire breeders Mr and Mrs Royce Bowyer, Normanville, and Glenda Rathjen, Springton, with Vic Artificial Breeders' chairman Jack Gardiner (second from right) at the presentation of national genetic awards.

Moorlands Obedient Keith Bennett and Les Bennett, Heatherdale, with Brian Hooper, Elders Adelaide, and Garry Greer, Elders Brisbane, with the new Heatherdale sire Wattleview Baron, bought from Toowoomba, Qld, for $25,000.

John Walsh with some of the Cheviot Watson stud rams at his Lucindale property.

Farmers and part time inventors Murray Cowley and David Baker, Cobden, Vic, show off their night watchment, Stock Watch, a motion sensitive device fitted to sheep that sets of an alarm when the flock is disturbed.

Principal figures behind the organisation of the 1980, 23rd annual Riverland Gadget and Implement Field Days at Loxton are organising committee secretary Lindsay Dowley and president Harvey Drabsch.

Elders market clerks Mary Dinning, her mother Ruth, Maylands, and Maureen Sadler, Millswood, inspect some of the lambs offered at Gepps Cross abattoirs. 

Flashback Friday – August 1980

This week’s Flashback Friday looks back to August 1980 with ram sales, the EP Field Days, Gawler Show...

Flashback Friday – August 1980

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